My understanding js that there is a race to the bottom in the UK means that people with grad degrees are competing to unpaid volunteer positions to get something on their resume…
I can’t imagine growing up there with any plan other than leaving.
No, it didn’t. But open source software follows the same cycles sometimes. The Gnome 2->3 transition is a simple example – they de-invented whole sections of the software to make a worse but newer dishwasher.
Wish sci fi was more colourful. I realize that military vehicles are best played in muted colours. But everything sci fi is so steel grey all the time :)
Now make a KDE 1.1.1 theme (this was the second last release of the 1.x era, and the last to use the 256 colour palette). KDE 1.1.2, codenamed “Kolour” was controversially released with the hicolor icon set enabled as default, much to the chagrin of those on older video hardware that couldn’t handle it ;)
Actually, I seem to recall one other bit of trivia. In 1.1.1, the icons had a limited, shared palette which was something like 60 colours max. This was because there were only 256 colours available to be rendered on the whole screen, so you didn’t want to reserve all 256 with the icons. In particular, this meant more colours were available when you tried to display an image or something, reducing the amount of dithering that would occur. So the icon artists really had a much smaller available palette than even 256 colours.
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